This Is What Happens ...

 ... when you never studied physics and some other things which are related to advanced weaponry. Difficult to explain to these "experts" that using 404 BS about "Oreshnik" has nothing to do with Oreshnik or, for that matter, any kind of modern hypersonic weapons at M=10+ while flying IN the atmosphere. 

But that's the "level" of this kind of bullshitters who browse internet, collect all kinds of rumors and fake "docs" and then pass it for "analysis". 

Meanwhile))

Caption: The first photo of 2026, guess what time it is.

Comment: You should baptize your child. 

I like mom's detached look and resignation to her fate, LOL)) 

It Is Becoming...

 ... nauseating. It is behind the paywall but what is available speaks volumes. 

On a recent trip to Ukraine, we walked through the rubble of a children’s hospital in Kyiv targeted by the Russians, toured an apartment building in Kharkiv where floor after floor had been destroyed by Russian missiles, and visited the front lines to meet with soldiers who spoke of the brutality of Russian human-wave tactics. But the most unsettling thing we saw was the American strategy in Ukraine, one that gives the Ukrainian people just enough military aid not to lose their war but not enough to win it. This strategy is slowly bleeding Ukraine, and its people, to death. Our visit was facilitated by With Honor, a bipartisan political-action committee that supports veterans in Congress, and we toured Ukraine alongside Republican and Democratic lawmakers. We are both Marine Corps veterans. We have a combined 60-year breadth of combat experience between us, including Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The horrors of war are not unfamiliar to us. Yet both of us felt deeply disturbed as we finished our trip.

And here, apart from these former marines parroting all types of 404 propaganda, which tells you immediately who they are as military professionals, some things need to be addressed. I'll start with the most abused term in the US--"strategy". These two do not know what strategy is, because what passes in the US for "strategy" is nothing more than knee jerking based on utter geopolitical and military incompetence based on confabulated military history and arrogance which manifested itself through dismal (and humiliating) American military record and military R&D and procurement policies which have nothing to do with real war. Albeit, at least in 1970s and 80s NATO was admitting its conventional weakness in Europe. 

But here comes this nauseating part, and you may have guessed it already, these two need to read this--their "combat" experiences are I-R-R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T for modern warfare. NO US military person ever fought against equal or better enemy than the US force, period. NO American serviceman knows, or, as on many occasions "maneuvers" of the US "volunteers" in 404 demonstrated when running away from serious contacts, can understand operational (emphasis on OPERATIONAL) realities and know how to act--recognizing one or another local tactical-operational reality the Joint Force Operations does not make. US never had real Joint Force, nor has any experience in having the main organ of combat control of ALL armed forces and that means General Staff. Joint Chiefs is not General Staff and America's military culture was always imperial expeditionary one and will remain such no matter what Washington does. So, these two former marines have to resign themselves to a cruel cold hard fact--the only people they fought in their lives have been essentially defenseless against them. With the exception of Vietnam which did have a serious support from the USSR.  

Thirdly, US military education is essentially a joke. Especially so in service academies whose serious modern warfare "studies" cannot even measure to what and how is taught in Russia. But here is something out of the left field for you. When even Masha Gessen (a fanatical Russophobe) speaking to another Russian deviant and foreign agent Dud' drops the truth bomb. 

Even this vile creature responding to Dud's question of what Americans think about WW II states that they really think that they won it. She points out that all this is due to arrogance and chauvinism. And then tells story from one of her experience at the exclusive gathering of CIA and Pentagon veterans when she was told to her face by one former CIA big honcho that: "We won WW II for you..." And even she (he, it) has been taken aback. When even this human anomaly has such an opinion, what do you expect from people who saw way more than these two "combat veterans" who are lost completely in the operational and strategic realities of SMO. Trump is correct here: 

The US has lost respect on the world stage and has become a laughing stock, former President Donald Trump said at a campaign event in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

And now you have many former and present US military people having a severe cognitive dissonance when they have been shown REAL war. But, of course, for them George Patton was and is great general. Hey, Hollywood says so. As per "human-wave" tactics, this is everything you need to know about these two marines--being militarily illiterate they would believe any "combat" BS, because nobody taught them real tactics and military history. Sore losers and amateurs...

Goes Extremely Well...

 ... with James Kunstler's superb piece today:

The business model is broken. We’re a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace. You can’t replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. Sorry. The full faith and credit of the USA is not embodied in those frivolities, so our money is losing its mojo fast. But get this: we will go on. This is not the end of the world or the end of history. It is the end of an era. Believe it or not, the economy will fix itself, it just won’t be what it was in 1957. It won’t be what the techno-supremacists think, either. (You need a dependable electric grid to run all those server farms and the apps they serve, and the AI supposedly looming.) It will fix itself because when things fail, as they are doing now, a lot of opportunities will open up to do things differently, even very differently.

    When the chain stores fail along with their twelve-thousand-mile supply lines, Americans will figure out how to find stuff, make stuff, move stuff, and sell stuff at a smaller scale, maybe back on your Main Street (if it’s still there). There will be a lot less stuff, of course. But it may be enough stuff, and some of you will be busy making stuff of some kind. Imagine an economy where practically everybody has a useful role to play. Do you know how much more important it is to lead a purposeful, active life than to be lost in leisure and anomie with more stuff than you know what to do with? Which is where we’re at now, even for many who are statistically “poor.”

But what is what goes extremely well, and on a lighter note, I may add. Well, get a load of this)))

And, BTW, another argument in favor of not reading all those TG channels, with the exception of official or reputable ones. I like Jackson Hinkle but he should have checked his "sources" yesterday when claiming this:

The bloody tactical meat-grinder for VSU at Vremeevsky Ledge (or salient) is just that--all three attempts at attacking have been repulsed and Makarovka village is a classic grey zone village. As reported by Russian MoD:

Сегодня в Минобороны сообщили, что российские бойцы отразили три атаки ВСУ в районе Времевского выступа. При этом противник потерял более 120 военнослужащих, два танка и три боевые бронированные машины.

Translation: Today, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian fighters repelled three attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the Vremevsky salient. At the same time, the enemy lost more than 120 servicemen, two tanks and three armored fighting vehicles.

So much for "breaking through", eh?